Garden Diary - April 11

All of our earliest seeds have finally been started in flats and self-watering planters inside - I'm using my new heating mat which was a birthday gift from mom to get them to germinate quickly.

We built a new surround for self-watering planters on the front porch. Mark's attempt to cut down the rim in order to create a cloche to fit over top may have been ill-advised, but it will do.

And I had a mad burst of edging, weeding and transplanting - lots of perennials divided up and dispersed throughout the bed directly in front of the house in an attempt to hold back the invasive plant that grows there (which I still haven't identified). Within the bed I'm putting in other aggressive plants to battle it out (the striped grass from the back that my mother has warned me about, some lamb's ears, and the pink flowering plant from the small square perennial bed in the front lawn. Directly in front of the bed, where it keeps making incursions, I'm aiming for a mat of thyme and various succulents.

We've been looking into getting a load of triple mix delivered, so that we can fill the new vegetable beds. It seems like we need half a truckload, all of which will have to be shoveled into our tiny wheelbarrow and toted to the back...